Greenscreen story about teen inventorfrom @zephzoid

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This is proof nobody with real money is solving real problems. A 13 year old girl proved the corn cobs farmers throw away can clean dirty water and won a Google Science Fair worse and $10,000 for it. The results have made the companies destroying the planet scared. Her name is Lalita Sirsai from Delhi Public School in India and won the Community Impact Worse for her invention. It takes corn cobs, which are dried, cut into pieces, powdered, and turned into activated charcoal plus fine sand and layered chambers. To test it, they took the dirtiest wastewater with added contaminants and passed it through them. The system removed up to 80% of contaminants including suspended particles, detergents, colored dyes, oil and grease, some salts, and even heavy metals. Corn cobs and other agricultural waste can be transformed by a teenager to filter poisons out of the drinking better, yet the biggest companies in the world continue to poison the planet. We finally have evidence innovation can happen. It's just profit at the expense of our health is more appealing to billionaires. As consumers, we need to support innovators like this and fund the right system. We can't trust the conglomerates that have been shown to poison and pollute the planet time and time again to make the change. Local farms are finding better ways to use waste and fight back. You can find them on the localized farmers market app.